Re: Which TI should I buy?


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Re: Which TI should I buy?



well, for one thing, the 82 has Lists, which are VERY useful.
i'm not too familiar with the 85, but i don't think the 82
is INFERIOR to the 85 in any way; they are just made for
different purposes and it's not right to compare them.
similarly, you shouldn't compare the 85 to a 92.
Bhuvanesh Bhatt.

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Phillip D. Teeple wrote:

> I still fail to see the advantages of the 82.  The 85's menu system is so
> much better, it has a custom menu, and is much more powerful with higher
> resolution.  Why is the TI-82 better?
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Johnny "Big Dog" Miyares wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Mr.Bean wrote:
> >
> > > For your information, it's really the OTHER WAY AROUND : the TI-85 was
> > > made BEFORE the TI-82!  The reason for that is that very few people were
> > > buying the TI-85 so they made a slightly inferior model for the average
> > > person.
> > >
> >
> > I don't know if I would refer to the 82 as inferior, but those of us who
> > had already been using the 81 as a teaching tool since '90(?) found the 85
> > user unfriendly when it came out in '91/'92.  Ideal for engineers, not so
> > ideal for teaching high school.
> >
> > The 82 came out in the summer of '93 and was designed to fit primarily the
> > needs of teachers who all went out and bought them in bulk for their
> > classrooms.  It may be less powerful than the 85, but in many ways, it has
> > it's advantages.
> >
> > Enough of this.
> >
> >         -- J. Big Dog
> >
>


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